What it is about BEING SINGLE and/or LIVING ALONE that is so ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!

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Haha - here's one for the girls - you don't have to bother shaving yr legz AMIRITE!

You get to eat ALL the food you cook without having to fairly dole it out between two plates! This is esp good for me as I have some sort of mental block when it comes to cooking quantities! A perfectly reasonable amount of rice going in the pan turns out it could feed the whole of my street etc etc.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I shaved my legs even more when I was single. HOw that is possible, I don't know.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

You can sit in your chair watching TV for years while being dead without someone moaning you're in their favourite chair because all of your chairs are yours and you can sit wherever you want! Yay!

― StanM, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Thread of Lolz +20 A+++ would use majik item again

― g-kit, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link

You can keep the dismembered bodies stacked in your airing cupboards for weeks and nobody will complain about teh stink.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, Nathalie, maybe that's why I don't have a girlfriend, I've never shaved my legs. Thanks for the tip!

― StanM, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i think if you're single you're just as likely to be making more effort on the personal appearance/hygiene front then if you're with someone (or at least have been with them long enough). depends on type of person you are i guess.

― blueski, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Not having to put up with passive aggressive behaviour. Like having to drag them round somewhere with them silently disapproving for some reason or other. And you go "are you all right, do you want to go home or go somewhere else" and they go "no, I'm fine" and it's obvious by their body language and tone of voice that it's not, so you go "clearly you're not fine", "I'm fiiiiine!". Ughhh god.

No arguments, no nagging, no quiet resentment, no visiting/staying with their awful, awful relatives who hate you.

― DavidM, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

**You can keep the dismembered bodies stacked in your airing cupboards for weeks and nobody will complain about teh stink.**

Now that I DO miss.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Oi, N, what's this about selling all your records? Leave them for Ophelia to listen to when she's grown up a little more. My dad always made a point of playing me music practically from day one, and it's made me the person I am today!

*pause*

I dunno, maybe you should sell 'em... ;-)

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sorry if you're upset and angry, Kate. The 'coupley' threads aren't all over the place and could be easily avoided if you really wanted to.

There are of course many many things about living alone that are absolutely fantastic, but you're not fooling me. I've been kicking around the ILX boards for quite a few years now, and I've seen what you're like when you're in a relationship and all love-up .... you're as guilty as the next person of waxing lyrical about how great your guy is, I've seen you do it. Which is fabulous, and how it should be. I get the feeling that deep down you would very much like to be in another long-term relationship, and I hope that you find that special someone who will be your soul mate, but in the meantime please don't be hatin' on those of us who have got to that point. A relationship in itself isn't an achievement, but making it a successful one probably is - it's something which requires a number of social skills, which do not necessarily include shouting and throwing tantrums because you don't have what you want right now. Just sayin, like.

― C J, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

You can have a wank during Songs of Praise and nobody will tell you off.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

"Especially since having a child, music has no more presence in my life."

so sad!

― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh Marcello, I know, I know. How I miss those days of musickness. :-( Alas no more. Maybe one day. When my two kids are a bit older. Maybe I should just install a CD player in the living room? I really should make an effort and play it for me and OPhelia (and the second baby!). :-)

― nathalie, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

*applauds*

(erm, CJ, not Noodle)

The problem with Kate's "things that are great about not being in a relationship" is that if you are in a reasonable and mutually respectful (ugh) relationship, you can do them all anyway!

― ailsa, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

You can have a wank during Songs of Praise and nobody will tell you off.
Noodle makes the Baby Jesus cry.

― C J, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Scott, I know! Don't remind me! ;-) I think I just found new obsessions. Kids and knitting. Yes, yes, yawn all you want. :-)

― nathalie, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

If Live and Kicking was still going that post would've been a hundred times worse.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

**You can have a wank during Songs of Praise and nobody will tell you off**

Hahahahahahaha!

Nath - just start playing stuff when you can. Maybe concentrated listening is difficult, but just having stuff playing is good too. Kids like music!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I should stop watching 24 obsessively and play some No New York for Ophelia. Ophelia rrrreally likes Hip Hop and drum-heavy music.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Our Hannah got into Melt-Banana at an early age.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Shouldn't this all be on some soon-to-be-started "what is it about NOT HAVING KIDS that is so BRILLIANT" thread?

― ailsa, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't have to watch/sit through/go off and find something else to do while she watches "her programmes". Last night I watched a Takeshi's Castle double bill followed by putting on a Deadwood DVD while I had my tea. If I was with someone it would probably be bloody soaps for two hours or something.

― DavidM, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I think what ailsa's saying is that if you're in a reasonable and mutually respectful relationship, you can happily bash away at yourself no matter what's on TV (correct me if i'm wrong here).

― g-kit, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sorry but why is everyone picking on Kate? Sure, those coupley threads can be avoided but what's wrong with having one for singles?

I love being single - no fighting for closet space, no need to clean up anyone else's mess, no annoying habits to deal with, and different people to bring home every weekend. :D

― Roz, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to check the rolling parenting thread, just to make sure none of you childless chumps have posted there.

― C J, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i understand, nath, but play some nice music for your little one. they need it. like plants.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

if you're in a reasonable and mutually respectful relationship, you can happily bash away at yourself no matter what's on TV

I thought this would be a Tuomas post.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

when my son was a toddler I 'd dance around w/him on my shoulders to the tune of "Give Up The Funk" For awhile he seemed to enjoy almost anything lively, from P-Funk to Nirvana, but around age 5 he started forming his own taste in music and then all bets were off...it's like with food, most kids I know went thru a phase around 2-3 of eating ANYTHING -- "he likes vegetables! she tried calamari!" -- only to get picky when the school years start.

― m coleman, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Plus: you don't have to put up with her sodding kids! I've just about had it with trying to accomodate someone else's mewling, snot-caked little cabbages.

― DavidM, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

My 14 yr old taught me some Metallica riffs last night!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't even tell what's satire any more.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

years ago - mid 90's? - i broke up with the sleepy stripper i was living with - i lived at her place - and finally got my own apartment. i loved it! i had never ever lived alone. i had the coolest cutest attic apartment and it was all MINE. so many things i liked about living alone. i think i lived there alone for about 3 years before inviting another ill-fated love to move in with me. i really made a mistake there. ah well, live and learn. then maria moved in and it was all downhill after that. just kidding! hahahaha! (but boy do i have fond memories of being by myself. i'm a hermit by nature. but other people keep me honest. and human.)

― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm in a reasonable and mutually respectful relationship, but I draw the line at Mr Unruly wanking during Supermaket Sweep. It's offputting to have someone grunting when I'm trying to remember how much a pot of extra thick double cream costs.

― C J, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

things I miss about being single: listening to whatever music I want whenever I want

things I don't miss about being single: listening to other singles bitch about marriage and kids

― m coleman, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha David, that made me laugh.

Sorry to ruin your thread with the baby talk. :-( Sorry, Kate.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

actually I shouldn't have posted that thing about kids, either solly

― m coleman, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

sometimes cliches contain some truth. i.e. the grass is always greener...

― m coleman, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

x-post to CJ - worse than fiddling about with the remote? It's a tough call.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

People are starving to death, dying of cancer, enduring terrible hardships (well, not in my village they're not, but I've read about that sort of stuff happening elsewhere) so I reckon in the great scheme of things fiddling with the remote isn't much to get steamed up about.

(I typed 'remote fiddling' first, but it looked kinda wrong) (but interesting) (I think there'd be a market for it) (what do you think?)

― C J, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

hahahaha.

― Roz, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Remote fiddling?

Keith to thread.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i am single, but have a roommate so a lot of these don't apply to me. however, the one great thing about being single is that i can do what i want, whenever i want, and i don't have to worry about it. all of my friends are couples and i find it really weird when one of them wants to stay in for a night, the other does it, too (even if they don't want to).

― homosexual II, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Remote fiddling = someone's thought of that already. You want KeefW for that, I believe.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah that seems wrong

― blueski, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, aye, what Mike said. xpost and all that.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Being single and alone lets you start threads about how alone you are and how you'll never have anyone ever and how you haven't had sex in ages and how you're a giant ball of lust and how you'll EXPLODE if you don't get some action.

If that sort of thing excites you, then I guess it falls into the definition of ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC.

― aldo, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

It's already been thought of? Ah, spit! No point in me patenting my newly-invented cybersex aid then.

― C J, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

fuck all these threads, seriously.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

this is all well and good but who's repping for the bigamists out there?

― blueski, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

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